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    This document provides information on infantry platoon and squad defense, including foxhole types and their characteristics. It discusses the SAFESOC principles of security, automatic weapons placement, fields of fire, entrenchment, and obstacles. Foxhole types include the one-man foxhole, two-man foxhole, L-shaped, T-shaped, and U-shaped varieties. Range cards and listening posts/observation posts are also covered. The characteristics of a successful defense are preparation, security, disruption, mass/concentration, flexibility, maneuver, and depth. The order of events in a defense includes reconnaissance, preparation, approach of the enemy attack, enemy assault, counterattack, and consolidation/reorganization.

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    This document provides information on infantry platoon and squad defense, including foxhole types and their characteristics. It discusses the SAFESOC principles of security, automatic weapons placement, fields of fire, entrenchment, and obstacles. Foxhole types include the one-man foxhole, two-man foxhole, L-shaped, T-shaped, and U-shaped varieties. Range cards and listening posts/observation posts are also covered. The characteristics of a successful defense are preparation, security, disruption, mass/concentration, flexibility, maneuver, and depth. The order of events in a defense includes reconnaissance, preparation, approach of the enemy attack, enemy assault, counterattack, and consolidation/reorganization.

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    This document provides information on infantry platoon and squad defense, including foxhole types and their characteristics. It discusses the SAFESOC principles of security, automatic weapons placement, fields of fire, entrenchment, and obstacles. Foxhole types include the one-man foxhole, two-man foxhole, L-shaped, T-shaped, and U-shaped varieties. Range cards and listening posts/observation posts are also covered. The characteristics of a successful defense are preparation, security, disruption, mass/concentration, flexibility, maneuver, and depth. The order of events in a defense includes reconnaissance, preparation, approach of the enemy attack, enemy assault, counterattack, and consolidation/reorganization.

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    This document provides information on infantry platoon and squad defense, including foxhole types and their characteristics. It discusses the SAFESOC principles of security, automatic weapons placement, fields of fire, entrenchment, and obstacles. Foxhole types include the one-man foxhole, two-man foxhole, L-shaped, T-shaped, and U-shaped varieties. Range cards and listening posts/observation posts are also covered. The characteristics of a successful defense are preparation, security, disruption, mass/concentration, flexibility, maneuver, and depth. The order of events in a defense includes reconnaissance, preparation, approach of the enemy attack, enemy assault, counterattack, and consolidation/reorganization.

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    INFANTRY PLATOON AND

    SQUAD
    DEFENSE
    SAFESOC
    ● Security
    ● Automatic weapons on avenues of approach
    ● Field of fire
    ● Entrenchment
    ● Supplementary/alternate
    ● Obstacles
    ● Camouflage
    COMMON CHARACTERISTICS OF
    ALL FIGHTING HOLES

    ● Limiting stakes
    ● Parapet
    ● Elbow rest
    ● Firing step
    ● Water and Grenade sump
    ● Aiming stake
    SKIRMISHER TRENCH

    ● Hasty firing position


    ● It's a shallow pit
    ● Used when you don't have time to
    make fox hole
    ONE MAN
    FOX HOLE
    ● Allows for minimum exposure
    ● Wide enough so you can sit
    comfortably and long enough so
    you can still use E-Tool
    ● Fire step
    TWO MAN
    FOX HOLE ● Allows for more and continuous
    observations
    ● Ammo redistribution

    Disadvantage

    ● Less protection from tanks,


    bombing and shell fragments
    L-SHAPE
    FOX HOLE
    ● Used for machine guns like 240
    ● Left side of the trench is for the
    AG
    ● Can be made into the T or the U
    foxhole
    T-SHAPED
    FOX HOLE ● Most preferred position
    ● Provides the primary and
    secondary mission in the same
    hole
    ● Tripod is used for the primary
    mission
    ● Bipod is used for the secondary
    mission
    ● Sumps at each leg
    U-SHAPED
    FOX HOLE

    ● Open end towards the enemy


    ● 180° traverse
    ● Less frontal cover
    RANGE CARD
    ● Sketch of position
    ● Reference points, key terrain,
    dead space and anything that
    RANGE CARD would assist the gunner or
    leadership
    ● 2 range card will be made one
    for the gunner and one for the
    leader
    LP/OP
    ● Listening post/Observation post
    ● 24 hour surveillance
    ● Can be employed any place of a
    battle field as long as they are
    provided fire support
    ● They are not recon
    What are the
    characteristics of the
    defense
    preparation, security, disruption, mass and
    concentration, flexibility, maneuver, and
    operations in-depth.
    What is preparation?
    Preparation must be continuous and
    continue in-depth ever as the close fight
    begins.
    What is security?
    Helps deceive the enemy as to friendly
    locations, strengths, and weaknesses.
    What is disruption?
    Defeat or misdirect enemy recon, break his
    formations, isolate his units, and attack
    and disrupt his systems.
    What is mass and
    concentration?
    Accept risk in some areas in order to mass
    effects in an area allowing for an
    advantage.
    What is flexibility?
    Add flexibility by designating
    supplementary positions, designing
    counterattack plans, and preparing to
    counterattack.
    What is maneuver?
    Helps facilitate other characteristics by
    shifting forces to add to security and
    support area operations.
    What are operations in-
    depth?
    Quick, violent, and simultaneous action
    throughout the depth of the defender's area
    can hurt, confuse, and even paralyze an
    enemy force.
    What are the Defense in-depth
    (allows for defending
    forms of
    a zone), and forward
    defensive defense (restricted to
    maneuver? defending a line).
    In-depth defense
    Forward defense
    -Recon and Surveillance ops.
    What are the -Occupation and preparation.

    order of events -Approach of the enemy main attack.

    for the defense? -Enemy assault.

    -Counterattack.

    -Consolidation and reorganization.


    ?QUESTIONS?
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    5AhWtxoUKHdZmC2gQFnoECBUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3iUzzUjbsTd1uCP
    OUIMPGk
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